Trump at CPAC: the invasion of the body snatchers is complete

Old-school Republicans were thin on the ground in Maryland, where the conservatives gathered proved they’re all Trumpians now

The invasion of the body snatchers is complete. Donald Trump has taken over the conservative movement and bent it to his will.

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The NRA Gave Ajit Pai a Gun for Getting Rid of Net Neutrality – Motherboard

Source: The NRA Gave Ajit Pai a Gun for Getting Rid of Net Neutrality – Motherboard

Word has it that he is also working on a Death Star program – these people are not even from the same universe as the rest of us.

Propaganda Pushed Around Indictment – DFRLab – Medium

Source: Propaganda Pushed Around Indictment – DFRLab – Medium

Shortly after the indictment was made public, RT and Sputnik News, the two largest Kremlin-funded news outlets in English, as well as the Kremlin itself, started a disinformation campaign. In their efforts, they published material, which followed a familiar pattern of dismissing, distracting, distorting, and denying allegations made in Mueller’s indictment.

The campaign was further amplified by elements of US fringe media, which spread Kremlin talking points to denounce Mueller’s investigation into the U.S. presidential election of 2016. The amplification does not necessarily signal command and control between groups spreading the same message but does perhaps signal overlapping objectives in messaging.

What An AR-15 Does

via Sophia, NOT Loren!

A radiologist describes what she found examining victims Marjory Stoneman Douglas:

In a typical handgun injury that I diagnose almost daily, a bullet leaves a laceration through an organ like the liver. To a radiologist, it appears as a linear, thin, grey bullet track through the organ. There may be bleeding and some bullet fragments.

I was looking at a CT scan of one of the victims of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, who had been brought to the trauma center during my call shift. The organ looked like an overripe melon smashed by a sledgehammer, with extensive bleeding. How could a gunshot wound have caused this much damage?

The reaction in the emergency room was the same. One of the trauma surgeons opened a young victim in the operating room, and found only shreds of the organ that had been hit by a bullet from an AR-15, a semi-automatic rifle which delivers a devastatingly lethal, high-velocity bullet to the victim. There was nothing left to repair, and utterly, devastatingly, nothing that could be done to fix the problem. The injury was fatal.

[…]

As a doctor, I feel I have a duty to inform the public of what I have learned as I have observed these wounds and cared for these patients. It’s clear to me that AR-15 or other high-velocity weapons, especially when outfitted with a high-capacity magazine, have no place in a civilian’s gun cabinet. I have friends who own AR-15 rifles; they enjoy shooting them at target practice for sport, and fervently defend their right to own them. But I cannot accept that their right to enjoy their hobby supersedes my right to send my own children to school, to a movie theater, or to a concert and to know that they are safe. Can the answer really be to subject our school children to active shooter drills—to learn to hide under desks, turn off the lights, lock the door and be silent—instead of addressing the root cause of the problem and passing legislation to take AR-15-style weapons out of the hands of civilians?

Conservatives are going to try to divert the debate by proposing a whole bunch of counterproductive security theater. Liberals can’t play into that. The focus needs to be on gun control. Inter alia, civilians should not be able to own weapons like the AR-15. The cost-benefit analysis is not close, and such a ban does not raise a serious constitutional question.

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A Magical 1970s French Comic Book Finally Translated Into English

The Green Hand and Other Stories by Nicole Claveloux with Edith Zha (all images courtesy New York Review Books unless otherwise noted)

The title story of Nicole Claveloux’s comic collection, The Green Hand and Other Stories, follows a young woman and her friend — a bird suffering from depression — as they move through a surreal dream-like series of events. Now out from New York Review books, the collection was originally published in French in 1978 and is the first to gather Claveloux’s work in English, thanks to the translations of Donald Nicholson-Smith and new lettering by Dustin Harbin. But Claveloux’s images almost don’t need text; the illustrations communicate the surreal tone and magical realist world of her narratives. The penwork is heavy, with dark, thick lines and striking colors that dramatically shift from panel to panel, conveying the mysterious mood. Shadows loom across high-ceilinged hallways lined with statues of gargoyles and nymphs. The Green Hand’s female protagonist wanders into a building, passes through its walls, and peeks behind doors, each time encountering something more wild and unusual: a regal religious figure on a quest of silence or a young boy eager to undress for her. In her own apartment, the bird lurks, soaked in deep purples, reds, and blues.

The Green Hand and Other Stories by Nicole Claveloux with Edith Zha

While these visuals are what immediately lure us into the story, that’s not to say the words are inconsequential. Edith Zha’s text not only complements but inspired the dissociative quality of the images. “She asked me if I could write a story for her to make a comic out of,” Zha explains in the interview published in the book. According to Claveloux, she leaned on Zha’s sense of structure: “I know how to write dialogues, but I don’t know how to write a story with a beginning, an end, and events between them. So I called on Edith, who is a skilled writer. She told this strange story chapter by chapter, and then I cut it all up into boxes and text bubbles.” These chapter titles are as alluring and mystifying as the pictures, with names like “The White Night” and “Blue Funk.”

Zha’s conversations are as idiosyncratic as the personalities speaking them. “She seems to find me quite attractive,” the plant taunts the bird in the first chapter of The Green Hand. “To me you look inert and potted,” the bird retorts, crying, “You’re insolent and pretentious. And you’re rooted to the spot. As for me, I’m free. Look!” as it dances around the room. When the woman discovers the bird has killed the plant out of jealousy, she runs out, beginning the fever dream journey that propels the story. When finally reunited, the bird and the woman share a text bubble, “It’s you! Yes! Good evening! You came back? Yes! As you see!” There’s a nod to the reader, as the characters throughout the stories call to each other to “see” or plainly state what we can see on the page, but rarely make sense of. What we see is as puzzling as the dream states the characters move through.

The Green Hand and Other Stories by Nicole Claveloux with Edith Zha

The book also includes a number of Claveloux’s shorter stories, including “The Little Vegetable Who Dreamed He Was a Panther,” wherein a rooted vegetable travels across fields and through walls in an attempt to become more like a panther. In “The Ninny and Her Prince Charming,” columns of horizontal panels depict a woman aging as she awaits her prince. Claveloux’s characters all seem to be waiting and searching, hoping to undergo a transition from their current stagnant state into something more. Her illustrations and worlds demonstrate a deep imagination of place, but also of personhood, as she makes space for the diverse imaginations and dreams of her creatures.

The Green Hand and Other Stories by Nicole Claveloux with Edith Zha

In one scene of The Green Hand, the woman and the bird reunite and run out into the blue and yellow horizon: “I was looking for you,” the woman calls. “The water attracts me!” exclaims the bird. Immersed in the water, the woman asks, “Where are we going?” The bird replies, “I don’t know. Just keep walking a long time?” Throughout Claveloux’s comics, the emphasis is on the voyage through the lush visuals and not on the specific plot points. In an aimless dream-like state we wander through her wonderfully twisted worlds, after which who knows what we will become.

The Green Hand and Other Stories written by Nicole Claveloux with Edith Zha, translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith with English lettering by Dustin Harbin, is now out from the New York Review Books.

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Maxine Waters to Speak at 2018 HRC Los Angeles Dinner

Maxine Waters: Profile

WASHINGTONThe Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights organization, announced that Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) will speak, and the Grammy Award-winning rock band Portugal. The Man will perform at the 2018 HRC Los Angeles Dinner.

Set to take place on Saturday, March 10, 2018, at the JW Marriott L.A. LIVE, the event brings together more than 1,000 of HRC’s most active members and supporters in the greater Los Angeles area to raise crucial funds in the fight for LGBTQ equality.

“Maxine Waters is a steadfast defender of equality who is fighting to reclaim the United States from the Trump-Pence agenda of hate, fear, and discrimination,” said HRC President Chad Griffin. “For years, Congresswoman Waters has been standing up for the marginalized and oppressed in our society. We are truly honored to welcome her to the 2018 HRC Los Angeles Dinner.”

Congresswoman Waters is considered by many to be one of the most powerful women in American politics today. She has gained a reputation as a fearless and outspoken advocate for women, children, people of color, and the poor. Elected in November 2016 to her fourteenth term in the U.S. House of Representatives with more than 76 percent of the vote in the 43rd Congressional District of California, Congresswoman Waters represents a large part of South Central Los Angeles, including the communities of Westchester, Playa Del Rey, Watts, and the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County comprised of Lennox, West Athens, West Carson, Harbor Gateway, and El Camino Village. The 43rd District also includes the diverse cities of Gardena, Hawthorne, Inglewood, Lawndale, Lomita, and Torrance. Congresswoman Waters serves as Ranking Member of the powerful House Financial Services Committee.

“Portugal. The Man is rocking the resistance and using their platform to help make a difference in the lives of LGBTQ people,” said Griffin. “We’re proud to have Portugal. The Man as part of HRC’s Equality Rocks campaign, helping to spark a conversation about love, fairness, and equality across the country, and we look forward to welcoming them to the 2018 HRC Los Angeles Dinner.”

In 2017, Portugal. The Man joined HRC’s Equality Rocks — a public engagement campaign featuring prominent musicians who support LGBTQ equality. In the video for their Grammy-winning single “Feel It Still – which is featured on their eighth studio album, WOODSTOCK – the Portland rockers send a message of resistance to its fans, giving them tools to fight oppression. The interactive video includes 30 Easter eggs with tips on how to resist during the current political climate of the Trump-Pence administration. HRC was featured in one of the eggs, encouraging followers to “stand up for equality.”

“Feel It Still” dominated the charts and radio airwaves in 2017. The multi-platinum certified hit reigned at at nearly all radio formats, including Top 40, as well as Alternative, where the song held the chart’s top spot for a mind-blowing 20 weeks, breaking the record for most weeks at . Billboard Magazine even went as far as to call the song, “the unexpected rock crossover hit of 2017,” while Rolling Stone listed it as “one of the best songs of 2017.”

From: http://www.looktothestars.org/news/17630-maxine-waters-to-speak-at-2018-hrc-los-angeles-dinner

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